If racking the tenantry is the condition on which he gets this lovely home, it is a temptation certainly. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland] Reference
A shop, also the post-office of the town, and in the course of conversation informed them that his tenantry were a lazy lot of blackguards. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland] Reference
My relations with my Harenc tenantry were always good. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Under a system of perpetual tenantry the case is different. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
The agent remained, and a few of the tenantry who had business with him. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference
'Many of the low-rented estates were badly farmed and the tenantry in low water. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Virginia the ancient theory of a landed aristocracy which was based upon tenantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
His tenantry, commanded by Lord Nairn, were among the most eager of the combatants on that day. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Tullibardine, who had at length joined the insurgent army, with his tenantry, assisting the Duke of Perth. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
They have nothing whatever to do with it; it is a mode of dealing between one class of tenantry and another. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Then there were the rejoicings at Welbeck, where the new Duchess soon ingratiated herself with the tenantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference
He gladly accepted invitations from his tenantry, and would remain on long visits, because he thus saved board. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
The imprisoned leaders at once issued a manifesto calling upon the tenantry of Ireland to withhold payment of rents. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
The feeling of the crofters in regard to increase of rent and eviction is very similar to that of the Irish tenantry. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
In thus assembling his friends and his tenantry, Lord Derwentwater was not blameless of undue influence and oppression. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
His tenantry were bound to protect all the hares, partridges, and pheasants that fed on their young corn; and, in return. From Wordnik.com. [Comical People] Reference
He was a very handsome, stately man, of high-bred manners, and portly figure, whom his tenantry both feared and honoured. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The upshot of the whole matter was a refusal on the part of the whole tenantry to pay the last "gale" or six months 'rent. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
It was, it is true, the custom for landed proprietors, as well as their tenantry, to deal in the trade of grazing and selling cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Every year he treats his tenantry to a dinner, and I need not add that these are always conducted on the principle of total abstinence. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
A bill was introduced by one of the Irish members with a view to mitigating the rigors of the law as regarded the impoverished tenantry. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
This circumstance suggested to a large number of the tenantry that it might be an opportunity to avail themselves of the provisions of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
The news of his death caused a feeling of great distress in the Scottish capital, and the sorrow among his tenantry in Midlothian was intense. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Lord Wintoun, like Lord Derwentwater, was in the bloom of his youth when he summoned his tenantry to follow him to the rendezvous appointed by. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Under that system, the lands were owned in vast bodies by a few wealthy barons, and leased by them to an impoverished and dependent tenantry. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In the second place, he gave a substantial dinner to all his tenantry, from the wealthy farmer of five hundred acres to the tenant of a cottage. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Almost simultaneously, and whilst his tenantry were following their young leader to the field, the Duke of Athole was proclaiming King George at. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
When a Jubilee Memorial Statue of the Queen, presented by the tenantry and servants on Her Majesty's estates, was unveiled by the Prince of Wales at. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
Many years ago the possessor of the castle, Mr. de Burgh, died, and the castle was then let out to various of the tenantry, among whom was a carpenter. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831] Reference
Yet cases might be named by the score in which such men scorned to avert by pressure on their suffering tenantry the fate they saw impending over them. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
There had been a demonstration at the previous decision, but it paled before the great rejoicings over my success among all the tenantry over whom I was agent. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
How could he do otherwise, or how more effectually, and less offensively, extricate Molly Brown from the unpleasant tenantry of the proposed under-ground floor?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference
Such are known as jargirdars, and enjoy almost sovereign state in their little domains, receiving absolutely feudal devotion from their tenantry and dependants. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
General Knox once owned a square of thirty miles in this part of the country; and he wished to settle it with a tenantry, after the fashion of English gentlemen. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
The large owners of land employed Scotch stewards to instruct their tenantry in the most improved system of husbandry; and their neighbours profited by the example. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
The large landed proprietors invite their tenantry to these great ceremonies, and for hours before it is time to light the fire, boats are arriving laden with guests. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
His income was estimated at about four hundred a year, and as his relations with tenantry were not harmonious, he never went out without a six-chambered revolver in his pocket. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
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